Hitachi Ltd. is set to buy Finmeccanica SpA’s rail business and a signals affiliate in its largest ever overseas acquisition as it seeks growth abroad. The Japanese industrial group, which makes nuclear power plant turbines, electronic equipment and industrial machinery will close the acquisitions ...

Mapple goes for coupons Recently, Japan has seen a rise in tourists, making a market for helpful apps for sightseers. Mapple’s free DigJapan! travel app, originally released for Tokyo, then Osaka and Kyoto, already lists and maps popular sightseeing spots and numerous useful stores ...

Hitachi High-Technologies Corp. has developed a wearable sensor for measuring employee activity levels that are closely linked to corporate productivity. The name tag-type sensor can be used to obtain data for analysis of human actions such as walking, nodding and typing. Activity levels can ...

There could be progress on U.S.-India civil nuclear cooperation, solar power and climate change when U.S. President Barack Obama visits India in two weeks, U.S. officials said on Sunday. While stressing there were no guarantees that some of the most vexing economic issues between ...

Hitachi Ltd. is in talks with Switzerland-based ABB Ltd. on a joint venture to supply electric power equipment to Japan, where the government is moving to free up the household electricity market, sources said Tuesday. The machinery maker would take the majority stake in ...

GE and Hitachi have cleared the next regulatory hurdle toward permission for the use of their joint nuclear reactor design in Britain after the government awarded it a so-called regulatory justification. Hitachi plans to build up to five UK Advanced Boiling Water Reactors at ...

While the nation debates the wisdom of restarting its nuclear power plants, the energy source remains central to some nations’ investments for tomorrow. The process to construct a new two-reactor facility in Wales has been going as planned, the British province’s economy minister said. ...

Hitachi Ltd.’s chief executive officer said he’s open to deeper ties, which could include merger talks, with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., after the equipment makers failed in their bid for Alstom SA’s power business. “We’ve built a relationship with them to talk frankly” about ...

Kamine Zoo in Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, has taken the catwalk to a new level, using some of its fiercest inhabitants to rip and claw jeans to a fashionably distressed look. The result: “Zoo Jeans” styled by the fangs and claws of lions, tigers and ...